Learning Curb

by S. M. Hutchens

One of the difficulties of advancing age is the weight of a pressing imperative that everything learned earlier must be reviewed and evaluated in light of later learning. I understand this to imply a natural lifespan of the intellect, past which one does not go any more readily than he may escape his allotment of days.

S. M. Hutchens is a senior editor and longtime writer for Touchstone.

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